Eight juveniles were given citations early Sunday morning for drinking underage at a home in the Pine Lake Court area of Manning after deputies with the Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a party going on at the location.
According to reports, deputies responding to the home came in contact with the home’s owner, who said that he’d just come home from a local restaurant. He allowed deputies to enter the home, where they reportedly smelled “the odor of alcoholic beverage emitting from the home,” reports indicate.
Deputies allegedly found the teens – seven girls and one boy,… Read the rest

A 62-year-old Manning man was charged with driving under the influence and liquor law violations about 11:26 p.m. Feb. 17 after police stopped him initially for speeding.
According to reports from the Manning Police Department, officers spotted the man speed up to about 62 mph while passing the Manning Early Childhood Center and then pass a vehicle in the no passing zone. Asked why he was “driving so recklessly,” the suspect said “he was trying to hurry and get home because he was tired,” reports state.
Police could “smell a very strong odor of alcohol coming from (the suspect’s) breath,”… Read the rest

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the fourth in a series of stories about cancer survivors and caregivers to run in The Manning Times in the lead-up to Clarendon County Relay for Life 2016, which will be held 6 p.m. to midnight May 6 at Manning High School’s Ramsey Stadium.
Manning resident Barbara Ardis is well into recovery from a massive surgery in December that rid her of colon cancer.
At 88, Ardis said her doctors weren’t sure she would survive the surgery and anesthesia itself.
“They told me that they didn’t even do colonoscopies on someone over 80,” Ardis said.… Read the rest

1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
1644 – Abel Tasman’s second Pacific voyage began.
1704 – Queen Anne’s War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style.
1720 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on… Read the rest

Capt. Robert McCullough with the state Department of Natural Resources said Sunday that crews continue surface and air searches in efforts to find the body of a 73-year-old boater lost Feb. 21 when his boat capsized and sank between Eagle Point and Lakevue Landing.
A 52-year-old man on board was also killed during the incident, which happened about 2 p.m., according to nearby witnesses. Those witnesses attempted to throw the elder boater a life jacket, but he was reportedly unable to get to it. They were able to pull in the younger boater, and unsuccessfully attempted CPR.
Clarendon County Dep.… Read the rest

A 45-year-old Manning woman was charged with driving under the influence after police, knowing she was intoxicated, spotted her getting in her vehicle and attempting to leave her home about 8:50 p.m. Feb. 17.
According to reports, the incident began when a 52-year-old Manning man notified police that he and his two children had left the home and were waiting in the parking lot at Weldon Auditorium. Manning police went to the man’s home, where the woman said she and her husband had n argument over dinner and he left with the children. Police advised the woman that the man… Read the rest

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers have set aside for now a proposal to allow school employees to carry guns on campus following two weeks of training after education officials and police representatives told them it would be too dangerous.
Angry after what he said was more than an hour of misleading testimony against his bill, Rep. Phillip Lowe left before a House subcommittee voted 4-2 to set aside his bill.
Lowe said he was only trying to protect the safety of children in rural schools that can’t afford a certified police officer and could have to wait for one… Read the rest

1957 – Cindy Wilson of The B-52s is born.
1998 – Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting center in Al Hillah, Iraq, kills 127.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.

Hillary Clinton came away with nearly 90 percent of the ballots cast Saturday in the Democratic Presidential Primary. She finished with 3,564 votes. Sanders had 337 votes. O’Malley had 3 votes. Wilson had 19.

Willie Edward Richardson, 35, died Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey in Sumter.
Born June 1980 in Manning, he was a son of Hester Hilton Richardson and the late Willie Marion Richardson Jr.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at Mt. Zero Missionary Baptist Church in Manning, with the Rev. Dr. Lucious Dixon, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the home of his uncle and aunt, Joe Moses and Margaret Hilton, 1545 Loblolly Drive in Manning.